The Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada is an accessible non-fiction account of spain’s Imperial Ambitions, Naval Conflict with England, and Its Impact on the Anglo-spanish War. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.

The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by Spanish Armada. Key figures linked to the book include Elizabeth I, Philip II of Spain, Francis Drake.